Детали

COLEM:1929.1049

Colchester Collections

plaque, diploma, inscription

An inscribed bronze plaque. This is the lower right hand corner of the first plate of a military diploma. This is part of the discharge papers of an auxiliary soldier, granting him Roman citizenship and the right to marry legally. Curators have suggested this may belong to a soldier named Saturninus. Reference to a soldier named Saturninus has linked him to Gloucester where he served in a Spanish unit, the Cohort I Fida Vardullorum. He was discharged at Colchester during the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius. This may be a copy of his discharge documents, though it is hard to know due to it being incomplete.

0138 - 0161

Roman

[---]CL[---] / [---]OST DV[---] / [---]VIIII IV[---] / [---]VER O COS[---] / [---]FLAV O[---] / [---]IVLA CUI PRAES[---] / [---] VERVS [---] / [---]RNINO GLEVI[---] / [---]NIT EX TABVLAER[---] / [---]N MVR POST [---] / [---]MINERVAM [---]

[---] / [---] / [---]9 4[---] / [---] Verus / Flavius [---] / Consul(s) / [---] to whom leads[---] / [---] Verus [---] / [---]of Gloucester[---] / [---]from the document [---] / [---] after[---] / [---]Minerva (goddess of war) [---]

length: 2.00 inches
width: 2.00 inches